Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices and Other Stories - Softcover

Charles Dickens

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184718880X ISBN 13: 9781847188809

Publisher: CSP Classic Texts, 2008

Synopsis

A mixture of memory and fiction, the Lazy Tour is based on a walking tour of England undertaken by himself and Wilkie Collins. It is accompanied here by some of Dickens' less-known short fiction: Bardell v. Pickwick, George Silverman's Explanation, Holiday Romance, The Holly-Tree, and A House to Let.

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Charles Dickens (1812-1870) is one of the most widely read English writers. Dickens started his writing career as a freelance reporter for the proctors in the Court of Doctors' commons, which later served as a source of information and inspiration for many of his vivid characters and social novels. In 1832, at the age of 20, he became a reporter on The Mirror of Parliament and on The Trues Sun. Dickens reported from the gallery of the House of Commons. He soon moved to larger newspapers which presented him with the opportunity to publish a series of papers. Sketches by Boz and Pickwick Papers were published in 1836, the year he married Catherine Hogarth with whom he had 10 children and whom he divorced later in life. Dickens wrote relentlessly with his first novels appearing in monthly instalments, a popular fashion at the time: Oliver Twist (1837-1839), Nicholas Nickleby (1838-1839), The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-1841) and Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty as part of the Master Humphrey's Clock series (1840-1841). Numerous other novels followed: David Copperfield, Bleak House, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friend, and the unfinished The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Presenting his readers with a plethora of vivid characters, Dickens's novels were a medium for social commentary as he was a fierce critic of poverty and social divisions of the Victorian society. Many of his novels have been adapted for theatre, cinema and television.

Edition details

• Publisher: CSP Classic Texts
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 184718880X
• ISBN 13: 9781847188809
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 95